ANURAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ANURAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANURAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANURAL is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANURAL
No single letter turns ANURAL into another word.
How ANURAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ANURAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does ANURAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Lacking a tail; having no tail at all.
Anural describes an animal or body part in which a tail is completely absent rather than merely short or reduced. Biologists use the term when precision matters, for instance to distinguish adult frogs, which lose their larval tails, from animals that never develop one at any stage. The word is built from the prefix an-, meaning without, and the root ura, meaning tail, the same root found in the name of the frog and toad order Anura.
How ANURAL is used
A specialized adjective found mainly in zoological writing rather than in general conversation.
- The adult frog is anural, having absorbed its tadpole tail during metamorphosis.
- Textbooks describe most modern amphibians of this group as anural.
- The fossil showed an anural body plan unusual for its era.
- An anural condition in the specimen puzzled the young naturalist.
- Illustrators drew the anural creature without any trace of a tail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANURAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANURAL
The 6 tiles of ANURAL in a different order — 1 found.
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Common questions about ANURAL
- Is ANURAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANURAL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANURAL worth?
- ANURAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANURAL mean?
- Lacking a tail; having no tail at all.
- What letters can be added to ANURAL?
- No single letter can be added to ANURAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ANURAL:
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